NOTES for Luk 18:7-8

In every age people ask this question: does God protect His chosen ones? If so, why do good people die, and if not, then where is His love? Such questions sound especially often after terrible catastrophes. Indeed, even if we have already understood that it is not God who brings these horrors, that all this is the consequence of sin, either directly or indirectly (as in the case of natural disasters: "the whole creation groans and suffers together until now" Rom. 8:22), the question of protection still remains.

Jesus does not give a direct answer, but He points to the right direction for reflection: "When the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?" In order for God to give His protection, we need to trust Him; we need to entrust our life completely into His hands. Have we done this when asking for protection, or are we still counting on His help, but on our terms? For example, have we accepted His view of what human life is, or do we inwardly insist on our own understanding of it as, first of all, physical life? And it is on this above all that what God's protection consists of depends.